THE BOY AND THE RIVER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 May 1926, Page 16

THE BOY AND THE RIVER.

Once upon a time a good old woman sent her son to sell butter arid cheese at the market a few miles . distant from their home When the boy came to a river he lay down and waited for it to run itself out, not understanding how otherwise to get across it.. Hours passed by and he still waited, and the river ran on with just the same force. About midnight he returned home to his mother, bringing hack the butter and cheese.

“We 1, son,” said the mother, “what ill fortune have you had to return so late, and to have sold nothing all day?”

“Why, mother,” answered the boy, “there is a river yonder that has been running fast all day, and I sat waiting for it to run out —but there it is running still.” “My son,” said the good woman, “we shall never live to see that river run dry, and you will never sell butter and cheese that way.” The river is like Time; it flows on and on and never stops. If we wait for a .better time to come we may wait too long and lose in the end. Just as the.mother said, her bov could not sell butter and cheese that way; lie would have to heat the river—or, in other words, do what he had to do in spTce of it. So with Time; we must keep up with it as it passes, for it will never wait for us.